Working Class Quotes - Page 8

• Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.

  Russell Brand

  Children, Animal, Class

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• If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

  Caitlin Moran

  Class, World, Fats

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Class, People

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• 'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

  Jason Scott Lee

  Easter, Islands, Class

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• After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first is internal, that is, the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie. The second is external, which is the contradiction between China and the imperialist countries. Consequently, after the victory of the people's democratic revolution, the state power of the people's republic under the leadership of the working class must not be weakened but must be strengthened.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Chinese Revolution, Land

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• The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

  Emma Goldman

  Pregnancy, America, Class

  "Mother Earth" Journal, 1911.

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• I mean, the people who got us into these crises - whether we're talking about the bankers or the hedge fund managers, or we're talking about the IMF - it's become pretty clear that the price to be paid for their illegal financial shenanigans, the burden is being placed on working class people, on the poor, on the elderly, on young people. It's become clear that neoliberal policies aren't just interested in "solving" an economic crisis, these are policies designed to enrich corporations and bankers and the rich at the expense of everybody else.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, People, Financial

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• The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

  Andrei Platonov

  Country, Home, Class

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• It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, Class, Prosperity

  Karl Marx (1997). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II”

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• In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Class, People

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).

  Joanna Russ

  Class, Use, May

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.125, University of Texas Press

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• Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

  James Callaghan

  Real, Class, Calling

  "Chancellor stands by three per cent growth and no devaluation". The Times, (p. 13), July 25, 1967.

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• A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

  Roy Jenkins

  Party, Class, Roots

  Roy Jenkins (1972). “What Matters Now. -”, Harper San Francisco

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• Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Class, Abstract

  "The Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. Groups Abroad". Sotsial-Demokrat, No. 40, March 29, 1915. Collected Works, Volume 21, pp. 158 - 164,

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• Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

  James Connolly

  Fighting, Class, Republican

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

  Raymond Williams

  Thinking, Class, Middle

  "Culture and Society". Book by Raymond Williams, 1958.

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• Freedom for the working class!

  Mother Jones

  Class

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, Courier Corporation, (p. 146), April 30, 2012.

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• When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, States, Proletariat

  Speech, May 27, 1922.

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• The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

  Stephen Daldry

  Successful, Class, People

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". Interview with Andy Bailey, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Class, Organization, Ideas

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• When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It’s a genre of movie I like very much.

  Olivier Martinez

  Dad, Kids, Cowboy

  "The General". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2015.

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• Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

  Yelawolf

  Boys, Dope, Class

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• It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Redneck, Class, America

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